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Background With Pure Storage Purity 6.1 we saw the arrival of file support to the family of Pure Storage FlashArrays, providing a unified block and file storage platform. In this blog post I will share how to get an Oracle database 19c up and running on a Pure Storage FlashArray using Oracle Direct NFS (dNFS). Oracle... Continue Reading →
Background As many of you may already know, I have been a long time supporter of running Oracle on NFS, having deployed many Oracle E-Business suite, single instance and RAC databases on NFS over years. However, for many Oracle DBAs NFS (Network File Systems) is still something of an unknown entity, in this post I... Continue Reading →
In this blog post I will share how the Oracle UTL_HTTP package can been used to enable full stack automation by calling external application and infrastructure REST APIs from within an Oracle 19c or 21c database. For the purpose of this post I will be using an Oracle 21c database and a Pure Storage FlashBlade... Continue Reading →
Introduction In a previous post I have shared how to install and configure the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance simulator on VirtualBox, and also on VMware Fusion. In this post I am going to show how we can use an Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance simulator to provide an environment to learn about NFSv4.1 and Oracle Direct... Continue Reading →
How to configure Oracle 19c database and DirectNFS with NFSv4.1 using a Pure Storage FlashBlade
Before we can use DataPump with Oracle dNFS we need to create and export an NFS filesystem, prepare our Linux environment and configure our database. Ok let's begin. Create File System For this walkthrough I need an NFS server, fortunately I have access to a Pure Storage FlashBlade in my lab, so I will be... Continue Reading →
If you are using Oracle dNFS (Direct NFS) to deliver or backup your database with Oracle RMAN (Recovery Manager) you may want to consider using Oracle MONDNFS rather than writing you own SQL monitoring scripts. dNFS Views Oracle provide a number of database views to help with the initial configuration and monitoring of dNFS these... Continue Reading →
Background One of the most exciting announcements at last years Oracle Open World #OOW19 was around multi-tenancy and Oracle change of licensing allowing non multi-tenant users to have up to 3 user-created PDB's in a container database at any time. https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/dblic/Licensing-Information.html#GUID-AB354617-6614-487E-A022-7FC9A5A08472 With the above, and the announcement of de-support of non-CDB architecture from 20c there... Continue Reading →
If you have been following my Blog for a while you will by now know I am a long term fan of Oracle on NFS and more accurately Oracle Direct NFS (dNFS). If you need to re-familirise yourself with Oracle dNFS you could do a lot worse than check-out some of my previous Blogs on... Continue Reading →
Background In my previous ORION Blog post I described how to prepare a Pure Storage FlashArray block volumes for use with Oracle ORION (ORacle IO Numbers), in this is Blog I am going to show how this can also be done with NFS. Getting Started - Storage Preparation For the purposes of this Blog I have... Continue Reading →